A Greek Marble Anthemion , 2nd quarter of the 4th Century B.C.

the tapering shaft carved in shallow relief with two rosettes above a fragmentary line of engraved Greek inscription reading Hesti[aios?], the architrave surmounted by a tall slightly concave anthemion composed of twin spirally-fluted acanthus stalks both emerging from a three-leaf calyx and terminating in addorsed downward-curving volutes, each with pendent bell flower, the half palmettes above flanking an omphalos.

K. J. Hewett, Bog Farm, Kent, 1960s
New York art market, acquired from K.J. Hewett on November 3rd, 1980
American private collection

Good and as shown, note damage to top of monument and losses to top of left-hand palmette, minor chips to edges of ornaments overall, scattered remains of incrustation
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For related examples see A. Conze, Die attischen Grabreliefs, Berlin, 1893-1922, no. 1321, and H. Möbius, Die Ornamente der griechischen Grabstelen klassischer und nachklassischer Zeit, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, 1929, pl. 24b (Chr. Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones, vol. II, Kilchberg, 1993, no. 2.341).

Greek funerary steles were often exported to the colonies, including those on the shores of the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula.  For the hundreds of stelae found in the Ukraine, and particularly around Kertch, see G. Kiezeritzky and C. Watzinger, Griechische Grabreliefs aus Südrussland; im Auftrage des Kaiserlichen Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Berlin, 1909.